Eddy

No dice, I’m afraid. Still blocks SP from connecting to the media server on start-up (workaround still works, as well)

Greggh

Unfortunately, as far as I can see, only the anti-virus exclusion settings allow exclusion of a folder. Tried it but no luck (not really surprising, I suppose, cos the problem appears to be centred on the webshield). Webshield exclusions are URL (no luck), MIME types (no idea!) and Processes (doubly no idea!)

Not looking hopeful, so far :-\